Actors Pose As Some Of Their Most Famous Characters

Successful celebrity portrait photographers often steer the focus away from a celebrities' past persona. This set of photographs goes the completely opposite direction and does some fun interpretations of specific characters in famous actors' careers. Some of the setups are simple and subtle, and some are very blunt. I think they're all great, except maybe Tom Cruise.

is it really too difficult to find the credits?... whoa!!... this is how Pinterest posts blind us from finding the real people!!.... just a little bit of Google Search would've done it!!.... this is Empire Magazine's 20th birthday shoot... photographers are various... the following link gives credit to all photogs.... http://www.empireonline.com/gallery/gallery.asp?GID=2353

is it me or are these all cropped badly, probably by whoever put them on pintrest perhaps. The Mel Gibson one could have been good, shame about the timid expression. The lighting is a bit off in the Matt Damon shot, if it's supposed to be more moody it just looks like they turned the lights down a stop or two ?? and why leave the creased background under his feet ? lazy or is there a hidden meaning ??Lot's of A list names that were probably very difficult to get, thrown in to a studio for about five minutes or less after probably hours of prep. Wasted opportunity ? maybe.

Could have been good. Christian Bale looked good but a bit like the US Olympic Team pics, most of them look pretty amateur. Considering the access to these people you would put some effort into creativity and composition at least.

Wow on the comments! Really guys? The moment I saw this photos I loved them, because they appeal to my movie-fan side, and that's the beauty of it, the subtleties and simplicity as opposed to the flamboyant and over-complicated shots that probably all this actors did for the premiere and publicity of their respective movies.

Honestly, from the comments, looks like every photo has to be a titanic effort to amaze every single time, whereas as I see it, the simplicity and (like someone wrote) "amateurism" of this shots, works great.

And don't compare them to the olympics photos, those were plain awful.